New York Lies Editorial Staff Strikes Out Again

When Liberals write their usual anti-freedom screeds, it is often more educational to study exactly what they left out of the article rather than what they put into it.

January 30, 2007
Editorial
A Day Without Guns ...

Twenty years ago, the Florida Legislature cravenly decided to allow “law abiding” citizens to carry concealed weapons merely by declaring their preference for self-defense. Then last July, at the prodding of the gun lobby, the current crop of state lawmakers proved they could be even more corrupt and cowardly than their predecessors by deciding to make the list of gun-toting Floridians a secret.

Fortunately, a local newspaper has given residents of the state a final look at their representatives’ gruesome handiwork.

When the law was first enacted, there were fewer than 25,000 licensed gun holders. Since then, the state roll has boomed to 410,000 and counting. As the veil descends on this dangerously macho part of the public record, enterprising articles in The Florida Sun-Sentinel are laying bare the fact that more than 1,400 people easily got gun licenses despite pleading guilty or no contest to felonies that included manslaughter, burglary and child molestation. In Broward County alone, gun licenses grew in 20 years to more than 35,000 from 25.

What's notably missing from this New York Lies editorial is the casualty figures from Florida caused by this horrible state of affairs. Certainly, if the lying impression that the Times is trying to convey here is true, that proliferation of firearms leads to a less safe rather than a more safe environment, there should be a concomitant increase in deaths due to those profligate firearms.

It is really interesting that, given the intent of the article is to prove how unsafe easy access to firearms is, they give no such data. This leads me to suspect that the reason they omitted those data is because it would tell an entirely different story.

The truth is, the more firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens, the lower the crime rate. This is true in Florida as it is elsewhere.

Another example of the lazy "journalism" practiced at the Times and another example of deceitful editorial practices which have become commonplace at the Times.

No wonder the Times is dying. Good riddance.

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